M.A-M.A English 3rd Sem Paper - 3.7 : Pragmatics - I(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

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Paper - 3.7 : Pragmatics - I

(2008 Pattern) (Optional)

Time : 3 Hours]                                                                            [Max. Marks:80

Instructions to the candidates:

1) All questions are compulsory.

2) All questions carry equal marks.

Q1) Answer any TWO of the following:         [16]

a) State the various definitions of Pragmatics and illustrate them with suitable

examples.

b) Discuss with suitable examples the component and perspective view of

language.

c)       How is sentence different from utterance? Explicate with suitable

examples.

Q2) Answer any TWO of the following:                                                                [16]

a) What roles do the ‘utterer’ and ‘interpreter’ play in an ongoing

conversation? Explain with suitable examples.

b) Throw light on context and conversation giving suitable examples.

c)       Illustrate the concepts, ‘the mental world’, ‘the physical world’ and ‘the

social world’ with reference to a short story/novel/one-act play/drama you have studied.

Q3) Answer any TWO of the following:                                                                [16]

a) “Felicity Conditions are needed for a performative speech act to be

successful”. Discuss.

b)    Explain with suitable examples Locutionary, Illocutionary and

                     Perlocutionary Acts.

        c)   Distinguish between direct and indirect speech acts giving suitable

                        examples.

P.T.O.

Q4) Answer any TWO of the following:                                                                [16]

Illustrate with suitable examples the traditional categories of deixis.

What is the role of deixis in dramatic discourse? Explain with suitable

examples.

“Social deixis concerns the social information that is encoded within

various expressions, such as relative social status and familiarity”. Discuss.

Q5) Answer any FOUR of the following:                                                              [16]

a)       Say whether the following statements are true or false:

Pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms

and the users of those forms.

George Yule wrote the book, ‘Principles of Pragmatics’.

Component view assumes that the grammar of a language consists

of several components.

Utterance is a string of words put together by the grammatical rules

of a language.

Identify the physical, mental and social world in the following extract

and comment on their importance in understanding the text:

‘How did you get a job there’? asked Munoo, romantically pursuing the

protest of going to Jamshedpur.

‘I needed the job’ replied Ratan. ‘When I applied at the gate I was told

to report to the foreman of the billet yard. It seemed too good to be true to me. But some kind of war was on and the company was doing good business in iron rails for the trains. The mill was busy and men were hard to find, because most of the coolies preferred to go soldiering with the prospect of certain death before them. They all want to die in glory’.

‘Was the work at the factory easy’?

‘What did you say, easy’? Called Ratan sarcastically. ‘Six to six. Seven

days a week. Those were our working days, before an open furnace,

where the molten steel boiled and bubbled like water in a saucepan.

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c)       Say whether the following utterances are instances of ‘direct’ or ‘indirect’

speech act:

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